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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Getting thinner',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/09/28.jpg" alt="They&apos;re installing the panelling" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="fat">
	<h2>Fat loss</h2>
	<p>
		There&apos;s a crease in my skin, perfectly tracing the line between my breasts and my gut.
		It&apos;s been there as long as I can remember, but previously, it wasn&apos;t really visible due to it&apos;s cause: my skin was too folded there from all the fat I had.
		If I stretched that skin flat, I could see it, but otherwise, it remained hidden.
		I noticed today though that it&apos;s fully visible.
		This is great!
		It&apos;s visible proof that my fat level is going down.
		I&apos;ve got a long way to go, but the little signs of improvement such as this give me the strength to continue my new diet.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I like your coin example.
			As you add more and more coins, the number of possibilities increase, but an even distribution of heads and tails remains the most likely outcome.
		</p>
		<p>
			I don&apos;t think I&apos;d count the change during meal consumption as a weight gain on your part.
			At that point, there&apos;s stuff inside you, but it&apos;s not really a part of you and much of it will be leaving relatively shortly.
			It&apos;s like if you fill a cup with water.
			A scale will give you a different weight reading before and after, but the cup itself weighs just the same.
			I&apos;ve been trying to lose fat for a while now though, and I noticed the up and down you&apos;re talking about.
			Because I&apos;m more concerned with my girth than my weight, as muscle is fine and it&apos;s heavier than fat, I was using a tailor&apos;s tape measure to keep track of my belly girth.
			I always measured when I got up, after using the toilet but before breakfast.
			To my frustration, my girth appeared to be going down, then back up, like you described.
			I attributed it to measurement errors, but it was probably just the natural fluctuations you described.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="address">
	<h2>Tracking changes of address</h2>
	<p>
		I finally found proof of my suspicion: the postal service sells information from submitted change-of-address forms.
		Well, I have no proof they&apos;re actually selling this data, but they&apos;re certainly distributing it.
		I found the <a href="http://www.nationalchangeofaddress.com/">change-of-address database</a> they use.
		Apparently, companies can query this database, and from the looks of it, they can query by address to get the current resident or they can query by name and get the current address.
		However, the database is supposedly resistant against data mining.
		Of course, all you need in order to data mine seems to be the address you want to send to.
		Then you can personalise the mail you send there so the recipient doesn&apos;t just throw it out for being addressed to &quot;current resident&quot;.
		I mean, if you&apos;re trying to data mine, you probably have an area you&apos;re targeting, right?
		You have the addresses and only need the names to go with them.
	</p>
	<p>
		So anyway, this is how companies have tracked me between homes.
		They&apos;re inputting my old name and seeing the move to this address.
		This is also why they haven&apos;t gotten word of my legal name change.
		That&apos;s not what this database stores.
		I don&apos;t think I can get my former name removed from the database, but just as I suspected, next time I move, they won&apos;t be able to follow me without my current name.
		And even then, I&apos;ve already discussed in past entries my plans to use an assumed given name along with my real surname to allow me to see who&apos;s getting my name from the database (which at the time, I had no proof existed) and who found me some other way.
	</p>
</section>
END
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